Photographic mask.



PATENTED JAN. 16, 1906.

P. A. HILLHOUSE. PHOTOGRAPHIG MASK.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 24. 1905.

\NVENTQ PERc ARCH ALDHILLH USE, BY

l H\s P Y HARNE K PERCY ARCHIBALD HILLHOUSE, OF BUSBY, SCOTLAND.

PHOTOGRAPHIC MASK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 16, 1906.

Application filed April 24, 1905. Serial No. 257,242.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PERcY ARGHIBALD I-IILLHoUsE, a subject of the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Busby, county of Renfrew, Scotland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Photographic Masks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention, which relates to the printing of borders to photographs by the use of border negatives and masks, has for its object to insure eXact register between border and picture in the printing operation.

The accompanying drawings illustrate an example of border negative and mask as used in my invention.

Figures 1 and 2 show elevations, as viewed from opposite sides to each other, of the combined border-negative and picture-mask and combined border-mask and picture-opening. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the line 3 3, Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrow; Fig. 4 is a horizontal section through the line 4 4, Fig. 1; and Fig. 5 is a perspective sectional view.

As shown by the drawings, I employ a combined border-negative and picture-mask A, of glass, celluloid, paper, or other material or materials, consisting, essentially, of an opaque portion B and a transparent or translucent portion B, (the border negative,) through which the border is printed, and an opaque portion O (the "picture-mask) to protect or mask from light while the border is being printed that part of the sensitive photographic-printing paper reserved for the picture, and also a combined border-mask and picture-opening D, of glass, celluloid, paper, or other material or materials, c011- sisting, essentially, of an opaque portion E (the border-mask) to protect from light while the picture is being printed that part of the sensitive photographic-printing paper reserved for the border, and an opening F, (the picture-opening,) through which the picture maybe printed from an ordinary photographic picture-negative.

The above-described two partsnamely, the combined border-negative with picturemask and the combined border-mask with pictureopeningare made separately and attached together or made in one piece and folded together with or without further attachment, in exact register, so as to form an envelop or pocket (shown in section by Figs. 3, 4, and 5) open at one or two edges or a single folder in book form open at three edges, each part forming one side of the envelop or folder, which would be of size to suit the printing-paper.

In use the sensitive photographic-printing paper is placed in the envelop or folder and held fixed in relation to the two sides thereof while the border is printed from one side of the sensitive paper, preferably through the unsensitized side, and the picture from the opposite side, either simultaneously or one after the other, or both picture and border may be printed in succession from the same side of the sensitive paper by reversing the latter, so that the sensitive side comes in con tact first with one side of the envelop or folder and then with the other side.

Having now described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

An envelop or pocket within which bordered photographs may be printed, composed of a combined border-negative and picture mask and a border-mask with picture-opening attached together in exact register as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PERCY ARCHIBA'LD HTIJLIIOUSE.

\Vitnesses WVALLAOE FAIRWEATHER, JNo. ARMSTRONG, Junr. 

